Miata Mailing List: June 1999, Message #253

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Peter,
         I'm not sure of the name of the event, but we do host one round of
the World Rally Championship in Oz, Perth actually, in Western Australia, a
few years ago an MX-5/Miata was used as one of the official cars, running in
front of the competitors, the car was modified only by raising the
suspension height a little and adding a couple of skid plates underneath, to
protect vital components, the car I believe was driven by an ex-superstar
Rally Driver (these guys are talented beyond belief) who was full of praise
for the car and its' balance, something that we take for granted. These
days, it's the 4 wheel drive Toyota Corollas, Subaru Impreza WRX etc that
fight out the events, at speeds that most of us could not imagine on any
normal road and they're doing it on gravel and snow and ice and occasionally
on tarmac, they don't like tarmac because the Formula 2 Citroens (only 2
wheel drive) eat them for breakfast!


Jeff Gehrig
MX5 CLUB of NSW #169 Australia
'99 Grace Green (Kelly)
MCA #42017
Oz TeamVoodoo
Team Grandpa
Team Loch Stewart
http://www.mx5.com.au/nsw/index.html


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Brusa <peter_son@yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: Headlight Advice/Cibies



Sounds like a blast!  Would love to try, but not in my
Miata ;-)

-Peter

--- Jeff Gehrig <miata@bigpond.com> wrote:
> Peter,
>          Things may have changed but I doubt it, in
> the Rally scene, (night
> time in the forests type rally) we always noticed
> that the majority of cars
> used Cibie, predominantly the "Super Oscar", said to
> be capable of
> constipating a Camel at 2,000 yards. Fabulous lights
> with 100 watt bulbs,
> focussed to what seemed like infinity, four or six
> of those on the front of
> the car, aimed strategically, worked beautifully at
> the 100 mph+ speeds on
> narrow dirt, forest roads, Cibie in those days,
> adorned probably 90% of
> Rally cars, Marchal most of the others, a few Hella
> and even the occasional
> Lucas (rally drivers have a sense of humour). IMO,
> Cibie are probably still
> the best lens designers.
>
>
> Jeff Gehrig
> MX5 CLUB of NSW #169 Australia
> '99 Grace Green (Kelly)
> MCA #42017
> Oz TeamVoodoo
> Team Grandpa
> Team Loch Stewart
> http://www.mx5.com.au/nsw/index.html
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Brusa <peter_son@yahoo.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> <miata@list.miata.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Headlight Advice/Cibies
>
>
> Will, same here.  Had Cibies in my old Scirocco and
> GTI and loved them.  It was real close decision on
> the
> Hellas vs. Cibies vs. BSP Low Proifile about a month
> ago.  What was even more difficult was that they guy
> who bought my 91 Red works for Hella here in Atlanta
> and really knows his stuff on lighting.
>
> Anyhoo, I decided to stick with the Cibies.  I too
> also had some nice comments on the light pattern and
> such. While still using the standard Philips H4
> bulb,
> the lenses really thow out some nice coverage at
> night.
>
> See some pics here:
>
<http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/4991/outside2.html>
>
> -Peter/1995 Laguna
>
>
> I personally run Cibie headlights.  Damn fine units.
> But if you
> think the Hella units are expensive....  IIRC I
> dropped $100 each on
> the puppies (albeit not at the cheapest place I
> could
> find, I don't
> think, but still...)   I originally had the Cibies
> in
> my old RX7, and
> then transferred them to the Miata.  Couldn't guess
> at
> the number of
> operational hours, but the bulbs are chronologically
> something like 5
> years old.  They are the "stock" wattage bulbs that
> came with the
> assemblies originally (like 50/60W).  My friend
> drove
> the Miata the
> other night.... he has these new "super white" 100W
> bulbs in his SHO
> and Maxima.  When he flicked on the high beams in
> the
> Miata, he asked
> if I had my driving lights hooked up to come on with
> the high beams.
> I informed him my car didn't have driving lights.
> Small data point, but there it is.\/\/
>
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